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I'm in college and I started this business called InsiderVisit. I want to know what the reddit world thinks. Do you think you know people who would use it, suggestions, comments, whatever. Thanks www.insidervisit.com

So basically here's how it works. It is an alternative to the college tour. If a student wants to visit a college they can come through us. Lets say for example they wanted to visit Penn State. They would fill out a survey about themselves, what they want to know about, their interests etc. I then relay this information to the Insider at Penn State, and they find someone or personally give the student a visit. During a visit a kid can learn about the real things about the school like the people, nightlife, dining halls. Just things you wouldn't hear on the school tour.

You should always visit a friend at the college you want to attend. If you dont have a friend our insider will be your friend. Thats just the easiest way to sum it up. Check out our website if you need more info.

I think you have something here. Connecting broke college students w/ an easy way to make some cash is likely the key to this idea's success--I don't know if you planned to pay the insider, and there wasn't a "Become an insider!" link any where that I saw.

Now that you have the framework I suggest you go test the idea on people. If you're not familiar with the business model canvas I think now would be a good time to check it out.

Seriously this is a great idea. The college tours are often too general and dont go into detail on specific majors or the important stuff.

Another thing which would be even more profitable (free idea) would be to make video tours of colleges. I'm a hs senior and the number of hours kids in my class have spent on CollegeProwler looking at those Youniversity videos would probably blow your mind. But those videos are crappy and don't really let you see the school all that well. You could hire kids at different colleges to make video tours of their school. I'm talking longer tours, like maybe half an hour each. If you got a good library of tours for the most popular schools and sold them at like $10-$15 a video (or even offer a subscription) you could make a pretty penny.

I think this is a great idea—I would have absolutely used a service like this when I was looking at colleges. I could see a speedbump in the form of parents who don't trust the service though, because I know most people have to travel to get to college visits and it's the parents, not the students, who generally plan/pay for the travel.